HENDERSON
gateway to
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR
BRITAIN DOUBLES MEHTERMNEAN FLEETS
Jap Army Splashes Forward
Against New Chinese Lines
To Northwest Os Shanghai
f FLEET BEATEN
IN NAVY BATTLE IN
HONG KONG REGION
Chinese War Planes and
Guns of Forts at Entrance
of Canton River
Victorious
direct HITS MADE
UPON NIPPON SHIPS
Japanese Spokesman Claims
Strong Chinese Fortifica
tions Northwest of Shang
hai Are Occupied; Muddy
Roads Jammed With More
Troops
Shanghai, Sept. 14.—(AP) —The Jap
anese army splashed forward through
a torrential rain today in a massed at'
tack against Chinese second line po
sitions northwest of here.
A Japanese spokesman reported the
strong fortifications at the Chinese
civic center of Kiangwang had been
occupied and the Japanese troops had
pushed deep into the delta. The mud
dy roads were jammed with Japanese
reinforcements moving up to bolster
the assault against the new Chinese
line.
Heavy artillery and tanks slithered
across country behind the advancing
Japanese infantry in the flooded delta
land.
New horror was added to the tragic
story of undeclared war at Shanghai
when the Chinese Central News
Agency reported 400 civilian war re
fugees had been killed or wounded by
Japanese bombs rained on the sailing
Continued on Page Five.)
Will Censor
All Whisky
Advertising
Raleigh, Sept. 14.—(AP) — Cutlar
Moore, chairman of the State Liquor
Commission, announced today that
after October 1 the board would cen
sor all liquor advertising in North
Carolina publications.
“This is just a control measure,”
Moore said, “to stop wild promotion
of liquor sales. We are not promot
ing the sale of whisky nor are we ad
vising anybody to drink it.’’
The notice, sent to each firm deal
ing in brands approved for sale in
ABC stores in the State, said, in part.
“For your information, I will ad
vise you that all art pictures, such as
a man holding a glass in his hand,
or pictures of anything other than
a bottle, will not be allowed.”
No liquor advertisements will be
permitted in publications published in
dry counties,” Moore said, “and in wet
counties it will consist of literature
giving the age and alcoholic strength
of the beverage, and that is about
all.”
IRIRAPECASE
NEARING THE JURY
Lawyers Argue to Jury Os
White Men in Guarded
Court Room
' Marion, Sepfi. ’l4
arguments before a jury of 13 wnne
raen in a heavily policed superior -cou
room marked closing steps today in
the trial of Mann Smith, Negro youth
charged with criminally assaulting
white child. . .
The Negro, whose first hearing last
week was declared a mistrial, after a
Marion plumber had knocked him ou
of his chair with a blow on the hea
with an iron pipe, elected to offer
no evidence after the State complete
its case late yesterday. Frank Felix
Alley said he would dispose of An
derson’s case after completion of the
Negro’s trial.
The 13-year-old prosecuting witness
robbed out before a packed court room
Jfciterday the story of thQ assault. _
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service of
associated press.
Roosevelt Confers
With Cabinet Over
Foreign Situation
Pledging Peace
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt is
pictured at Hyde Park, N. Y., as he
pledged an informal gathering of
the Roosevelt Home Club to do
“everything possible to keep the
United States out of war.”
(Central Press)
REYNOLDS MAY YET
FACE OPPOSITION
Observers See Prospects for
Candidate To Run
Against Senator
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Sept. 14-They may be like
the little boy who whistles to keep his
courage up, but opponents of Senator
Robert R. Reynolds who took part in
the multitudinous political powf
wows held as adjuncts of the Young
Democratic convention have gone
home from Winston-Salem with new
optimism (real or synthetic) that
they can find a candidate with a
chance to bear “Our Bob” next year.
How much of this is real optimism
and how much of it is pure wishful
thinking cannot yet be determined,
but on the surface it seems that Sen
ator Reynolds may yet draw a real
rival for his toga.
Among those on whom the Y. D.
Conclave had a strong effect can be
listed Tom Bost, dean of Raleigh
newspaper men, who prior to the
Camel City convention wrote a num
ber of “pieces for the paper” in which
he subscribed unequivocally to the
theory that Reynolds was as good as
nominated by default. Now comes Sir
Thomas with an article in which he
analyzes the situation at some length
and comes up with the conclusion that
there are several citizens of this com
monwealth who can give Robert R.
more than a modicum of misery.
Among these he lists Congressman
Bob Doughton and Frank Hancock,
(Continued on Page Three.)
PROBLEM OF NEGRO
MORONS NOW ACUTE
Faculties Recently provided At Ne
gro Hospital in Goldsboro
Entirely Overrun
Raleigh, Sept. 14 (AP)—W. C. Ezell,
director of intitutions and corrections
for the welfare board, issued a state
ment today saying the problem of ear
ing for feeble-minded Negro children
has reached an acute stage tn. State.
A building erected at the Goldsboro
State Hospital to house 100 feeble
minded Negro children has proved in
adequate, Ezell said, with 185 children
already accepted and 50 more await
ing diagnosis. —■-
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 14, 1937
Precedes General Discussion
by Luncheon Confer
ence With Secre
tary Hull
MILL CONSUMPTION
OF COTTON CLIMBS
Second Highest for August
In History; Farm Leaders
Descend on Capital To
Claim Falling Farm Prices
Reviving Demand for Crop
Control
Washington, Sept. 14. —(AP) —Pres-
ident Roosevelt, back in Washington
today from an 18-day vacation, called
in his cabinet to survey recent hap
penings in the Far East and Europe.
The meeting of the official family
was set for 2 p. m., after a luncheon
conference with Secretary Hull.
Following his recent custom of in
terviewing overseas travelers in and
out of official life, the President also
was expected to talk with Governor
George Earle, of Pennsylvania, just
back from Europe. The governor and
Mrs. Earle were invited to tea.
Several important decisions con
fronted the President on his return.
Meantime, domestic mills opened
the new cotton season with the lar
gest consumption ever recorded for
August, with one exception, the Cen
sus Bureau reported. Consumption of
604,380 running bales of lint in Au
gust was exceeded only by August,
1927, when 637,520 bales were used.
Elsewhere at Washington, the Com
,merce Department said Japan pur
chased $16,000,000 more cotton in the
United States in first eight months
of this year than in the similar pe
riod last year.
Other developments:
Senator King, Democrat, Utah, ex-
Continued on Page Five.)
FIGHT LOOMS OVER
PEANUT TEST FARM
Peanut Growers Want Separate Pro
ject, and Kerr Scott May Add
It Elsewhere
Raleigh, Sept. 14 (AP)—R. C. Hol
land, of Edenton, president of the pea
nut stabilization cooperative, urged in
a letter to Kerr Scott, agriculture com
missioner, today that the proposed pea
nut test farm be made a separate pro
ject devoted to peanut and peanut dis
ease research.
Scott will hold a hearing here to
morrow on the proposal and the State
Farm Bureau Federation plans to
have peanut representatives here to
argue that there should be a separate
peanut test farm, or that the appro
priation made by the 1937 legislature
for that purpose should be left intact.
E. F. Arnold, executive secretary of
the bureau, said members were afraid
Scott planned to put the work at one
of the present test farms.
Farmers Os State Are
Slowly Freeing Selves
Os Mortgages On Farms
College Station, Raleigh, Sept. 14.
North Carolina farmers are slowly but
gradually throwing off the shackling
bonds of the farm mortgage, accord
ing to a report from the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture received to
day by Dean I. O. Schaub, of State
College.
Comparing figures compiled from
the farm census of 1935 with those of
the 1930 census, the number of farms
under mortgage decreased from 78,079
to 76,251 during the five-year period,
the dean said.
In 1930, mortgages covered 27.9 per
cent of the State’s farms, but only
25.3 percent in 1935.
An even greater drop in the amount
of mortgaged indebtedness was noted:
from $100,914,000 in 1930 to $86,675,000
in 1935, a decrease of 14.1 percent.
New York Has Hotly Contested Primary |
gSflljfe:, V
Mayor Florello H. La Guardia
Fusion nomination assured; seek
ing Republican nomination also.
Supported also by Laborites.
FURTHER FEDERAL
ENCROACHMENT IS
VISIONEOJSY HOEY
Tar Heel Executive Speaks
at Annual Conference of
Governors Os
Nation
DECLARES PEOPLE
ARE DEMANDING IT
Calling Upon Washington
For Services Hitherto Con
sidered Merely Local In
Nature; No Use To Cry
Out Against These Usur
pations, He Says
Atlantic City, N. J., Sept. 14. —(AF)
—Governor Clyde Hoey of North Car
olina, told the annual national con
ference of governors here today states
could expect further “encroachment
on their powers by the Federal gov
ernment unless they meet public de
mands for expanded protection and
service.”
For 30 years or more, Hoey said,
the trend has been toward increase
of power of larger units of govern
ment at the expense of the smaller,
and especially in recent years citizens
demand of the Federal government
services formerly considered purely
local governmental functions.
“It is of no effect,” he said, “to cry
out against these encroachments up
on the province of local government
and this assumption of authority in
service by the Federal government
where the people of the several states
have been wildly clamoring toward
this governmental assistance and de
manding' enlarged service from the
Federal governtnent.”
He said he chose “not so much to
Continued on Rage Five.)
BEAUFORT COUNTY IS
GIVEN FUND BY WPA
Raleigh, Sept. 14—(AP)—The WPA
announced allocation today of $6,995.-
50 to Beaufort county for a general
work relief program on recreational
facilities.
The average indebtedness per mort
gaged farm in 1930 was $1,293, while
in 1935 it had dropped to $1,137.
At the time of the last census, the
dean continued, 44,394 of North Caro
lina’s mortgaged farms were operat
ed by owners who owed a total of
$54,208,000; while 31,857 mortgaged
farms were operated ;by managers or
tenants, and on which $32,467,000 was
owed.
The figures in the preceding para
graph referring to owner-operated
farms include owners who operate
their own land and also land rented
from others.
Another compilation of figures cov
ering the farms of owners who op
erate only their own land showed that
in 1935 there were 92,832 of these
farms free from mortgage as com
pared with 81 t 584 in 1930.
Senator Royal S. Copeland
Tammany candidate, seeking
Democratic and Republican nomi
nations
Senator Walsh Calls On
Roosevelt To Determine
If Black Is Now Kluxer
Massachusetts Democratic Senator Says New Justice
Owes It to President, to C ongress and Nation To Tell
Truth; Only Remedy With Roosevelt
New York, Sept. 14.—(AP) —Senator
David Walsh, Democrat, Massachu
setts, called on President Roosevelt
today to set up “an impartial inves
tigation committee” to study state
ments that .Supreme Court Justice
Hugo Black holds a life membership
in the Ku Klux Klan.”
Amid a new storm of charges and
counter charges in the controversy,
Senator Walsh further asserted that
Justice Black, newly-appointed to the
nation’s highest judicial tribunal by
President Roosevelt, “owes it to the
President, the Senate and the country
to declare publicly whether he is a
meirtber of the Klan.”
Justice Black himself, now vacation
ing in London, neither denied nor con
rooseveltsTrip
TO TEST MIMENT
But Station Crowds Will
Whoop It Up for Him,
Like Him or Not
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Comment
Washington, Sept. 14.—President
Roosevelt’s expected tour of the west,
according to what we correspondents
are accustomed to describe as “well
informed persons,” is not so much to
“make medicine” against senators and
representatives who opposed his po
licies at the last session of congress
as to enlighten himself.
He desires, it seems, to talk with
the actual “home folk”.
If he finds that these “home folk”
are behind his program presumably
he will tell his congressional oppo
nents to “go hang” at their next ses
sion. If he finds that the anti-New
Deal legislators really have the sup
port of the “home folk” he will have
(Continued on Page Six.)
TRIBUTE PAID TO
DEAD CZECH CHIEF
Dr. Thomas Masuryk, Founder of Re
public, Dies at 87 After Long
Critical Illness
Praha, Czecho-Slovakia, Sept. 14—
(AP)—Dr. Thomas Masaryk, grand old
man of Czecho-Slovakia, and founder
of the republic, today lost his long
fight against death. He was 87.
The kittle father of Czecho-Slova
kia,” "had been critically ill since Sep
tember 2.
Flags in Praha and at the Chatea
de Lany, the residence given Dr.
Masaryk by the people, were half staff
ed. The country folks among whom
he lived his last years uncovered their
heads and bent their knees in silent
prayer. They had been standing sil
ently outside the castle during the
night seeking word of his condition.
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Jeremiah T. Mahoney
New Deal candidate, seeking
Democratic nomination, backed
by four borough leaders.
firmed his alleged affiliation with the
white-hooded “invisible empire.” l
In Atlanta, Ga., Imperial Wizard
Hiram Evans, head of the >Ku Klux
Klan, declared the klan “supported”
Senator Royal Copeland, Democrat,
New York, in his 1928 senatorial race.
The wizard’s statement came in the
nature of a backfire on Copeland,
who precipitated the controversy by
declaring Justice Black “should re
sign at once,” in view of allegations
that he is a member of the white
robed secret, order.
In an interview at Clinton, Mass.,
Walsh declared:
“The only practical thing that can
be done to prevent Justice Black from
serving on the United States Supreme
Court is through presidential action.”
North Spain
Anarchists
Seize Reins
Menace to Both Gov
ernment and Insur
gent Forces in Bis
cayan City
Hendaye, Franc-Spanish Border,
Sept. 14 (AP) —Anarchists have made
a coup d’etat at Gijon, lone Spanish
government coastal stronghold in the
northwest, and have set up an Astu
rian dictatorship, insurgent officers
announced at Irun today.
Secret military advices, said the
name Blarmino Tomas, an anarchist,
headed the movement. He issued a de
cree breaking off relations with the
Spanish central government and set
ting up a separate anarchist state in
Asturias, with himself the dictator.
One of Thomas’ first acts was to order
the imprisonment of the whole gene
ral staff of the Spanish government’s
retreating northern army.
Moreover, insurgent headquarters at
Continued on Page Five.)
TRADE SECRETARIES
TO MEET IN DURHAM
T. J. Mitchell, of Burlington, Is Elect
ed President of State Group
At Wilson
Wilson, Sept. 14 (AP) —T. J. Mit
chell, of Burlington was elected pres
ident and Durham was selected as the
1938 meeting place of the final ses
sion of the North Carolina Chamber
of Commerce secretaries here today.
Mitchell succeeds E. H. Austin, of
Rocky Mount.
O. L. Wilson, of Kinston, was named
vice-president; Lester Rose, of Wilson,
secretary, and O. L. Bane, of Rox
boro, and W. G. Gaston, of Gastonia,
directors.
The association adopted a resolution
advocating the State advertising cam-
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90 WARSHIPS ARE
TO GO ON PATROL
IN INLAND OCEAN
Envoys of Nine Nations,
Chiefly Britain and
France, Sign Accord
For Policing
PROTECT~SHIPPING
FROM SUBMARINES
War on Piracy Is on in Full
Force; League of Nations
To Study How To Deal
With Other Mediterranean
Problems; Italy Is Not
Cooperating
(By The Associated Press.)
Great Britain more than doubled
her Mediterranean fighting strength
to down submarine pirates today.
New Admiralty orders disclosed she
will have 90 warships in the inland
sea within a few days compared with
a regular patrol of 42.
The latest orders sent ten men of
war from home waters into the
Mediterranean to cooperate with the
French fleet in the piracy patrol.
HISTORIC DOCUMENT, NOW
BACKED BY NINE NATIONS
Geneva, Sept. 14.j—(AP) —The en
voys of nine nations signed today at
Nyon a historic document to suppress
submarine piracy in the Mediterran
ean, with the war vessels of Great
Britain and France already steam
ing toward the greatest naval demon
stration of its kind ever planned.
The accord deals only with the ques
tion of piratical submarine attacks in
the inland sea, attacks which govern
ment Spain and Soviet Russia charg
ed flatly to Italy. Italy, not a signa
tory today, denies this just as flatly.
The League of Nations itself will
consider how to deal with other forms
of Mediterranean aggression.
Great Britain and France imme
diately swung into action to concen
trate a mighty fleet on the inland sea.
A number of torpedo .boats from the
French Atlantic fleet, with fresh car
goes of supplies, including munitions
taken on at Brest, drove quickly to
ward their Mediterranean patrol
posts.
They augmented a formidable fleet
of British war craft already at Medi
terranean stations.
Signatories to the pact beside Bri-
Continued on Page Five.)
SLIGHT GAINS FOR
COTTON ON CLOSE
Prices Three to Seven Points Higher
- On Domestic and Foreign Ac
tive Buying
New York, Sept. 14.—(AP) —Cotton
futures opened steady, two points low
er to two higher, with hedge selling
absorbed by the domestic and foreign
trade. After the first half hour, De
cember sold at 8.83, and the list was
about 3 to 7 points net higher. The
market rallied to net gains of about
11 to 18 points during the
helped by continued trade buying and
Liverpool support, as well as cover
ing. The volume of southern selling
also tapered off somewhat and De
cember advanced to 8.90 by midday.
Futures closed steady, 3 to 7 points
higher. Spot steady, middling 9U)6.
Open Close
October 8.81 8.90
Jai^uary 0 ' .-".Y".Y SS M*
Ma.ch 891 898
May ..' 899 904
July::: .-m* 912
TAR HEEL FLIER’S
BODY IS LOCATED
Fire of Mysterious Origin
Half Destroys Body in
Old Wreckage
Grapeland, Tex., Sept. 14 (AP)—The
body of Cadet Flier Guy Edgerton, ap
parently saturated with gasoline from
his wrecked plane caught fire as it
lay tangled in the wreckage early to
day and was partly consumed.
Origin of the blalze was not deter
mined.
The plane, missing two weeks, was
found late yesterday in a thickly-wood
ed section 12 miles southwest of here.
Egerton, Kenly, N. C., youth, was re
ported lost when a 13-plane training
flight scattered in a storm.
The craft, the object of Texas’s
greatest aerial search, was found by a
youth, Isaac Johnson, who was search
ing for stray cows.
Wreckage of the plane was strewn
over an acre of cut-over timber and
was not visible from the air. Egerton
had become lost in a flight from Shre
veport to San Antonio two weeks ago
yesterday.